"The GOP and myself are as conservative ... as Obama."
Posted on 04/04/2015 6:28:21 AM PDT by cotton1706
The eminent George Will has penned a baffling column.
The headline: “Cruz is aiming at the wrong Republicans.”
Writes Will:
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz was born in 1970, six years after events refuted a theory on which he is wagering his candidacy. The 1964 theory was that many millions of conservatives abstained from voting because the GOP did not nominate sufficiently deep-dyed conservatives. So if in 1964 the party would choose someone like Arizona Sen. Barry Goldwater, hitherto dormant conservatives would join the electorate in numbers sufficient for victory. This theory was slain by a fact — actually, 15,951,378 facts. That was the difference between the 43,129,566 votes President Lyndon Johnson received and the 27,178,188 that Goldwater got on the way to winning six states.
Acknowledging that it was known in the day by conservatives that Goldwater could not win — in the wake of the shocking assassination of JFK there was no way America would want a third president in four years — Will quotes William F. Buckley, Jr. as saying that the Goldwater campaign was about taking the time to “properly prepare the ground” for a future conservative victory. A victory that came sixteen years later in 1980 with the election of Ronald Reagan. Today, says, Will, “there is no need to nominate Cruz in order to make the GOP conservative.” The GOP is conservative, he says, as proved by the disappearance of GOP liberals of the kind that Goldwater himself served with in the Senate.
(Excerpt) Read more at conservativereview.com ...
And we know why, because they don't want to ever see that ever happen again. They like the pendulum to swing ever so slightly to the left or to the right. And even if the pendulum swings far to the left (as in 2008) they don't really mind. They just want to thwart the pendulum from swinging far to the right, which throws out all their allies and cronies.
A conservative tide is to be stopped, hence the battles of 2014 to reelect EVERY incumbent by ANY means necessary.
A conservative can sweep the country, while their preferred moderates can win only barely ('00 and '04) or lose outright ('76, '92, '96, '08, '12).
George will like the Obamabots is living in “Never/Never Land”!!! He has lost it, but i’m not sure he ever had it!!!
"The GOP and myself are as conservative ... as Obama."
Will is presenting a false allegation — Cruz is running for full conservative voters.
Instead, Cruz has a position as a true conservative. The mass of Republican candidates are more of what we have had in recent years. As was said in the Goldwater days, he is a choice not an echo.
I can’t stand George Will but I read that article he wrote. Its BS.
The night Ted Cruz announced his candidacy George Will praised him by saying “a candidate like no other’ then the next day proceeded to start dissing him. The guy is a RINO leadership shill. The best thing you can do with George Will is ignore him.
This is the year his Cubs return to relevance.
In a just world George Will would be required to respond to this. This column simply takes him to the woodshed.
The Wills of the GOP hate the cocktail parties they go to when the libtards aren’t running things. They just get so miserable and disgusting. The libtards are much more fun to be around when the are just gloating and scheming.
Glad I read this; no wonder George Will seems so out of it so often--he is.
And as a result of not electing Goldwater, what did we get and where is the Nation today? In one big mess. If the Pub’s had not given up, and fought like real decent, honest and competent Americans should have done, maybe this Nation would still be the best ever. But, what the hell we have crossed the Rubicon and our days are numbered.
I saw Ted Cruz’s campaign video on Fox & Friends this morning & it occurred to me that he is following Nixon’s ‘southern strategy’, which was to go hard after the Christian evangelical vote. We have so many Christians who do not do their civic duty and vote (about 30 million!). Ted may be giving them a reason to change that behavior.
True, even Goldwater himself gave up, as did his allies John Tower, et al.
He probably doesn't even realize that he made these exact same slams he uses on Cruz against Reagan.
Lord crushes George Will. This is in my public bookmarks. Thanks for the find.
He's a smart guy, he's just stuck in an echo chamber of RINO voices bouncing around the bubble he lives in...
Hopefully he will figure it out...not making any bets on that ...
George Will lacks intellectual rigour, in addition to being intellectually dishonest. He essentially bends the facts to suit his RINO agenda/narrative. That’s the trouble with
living in DC for too long and hanging out with liberals from outfits like the Washington Post all the time. He’s been co-opted and compromised and is of little use to anyone.
DC really is a unique place.
My cousin has lived there since the 70s and I’ve had many visits.
The 2009-current Obama depression appeared to have no impact at all.
The standard of living is impressive - us taxpayers support it in fine fashion.
George Will: “This is too hard! We shouldn’t even try.”
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